[Nix-dev] Cannot start KMail, akonadi cannot be started

[Matthias Beyer]

Hi,

short update: After I did a `nixos-rebuild switch`, I can boot and
start my kde session, but the plasma desktop crashes right after I
logged in via kdm.

Trying to solve this now. Hints appreciated! :-)

On 07-01-2015 18:04:50, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thank you a lot for your help!
> 
> On 07-01-2015 16:43:13, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> > On 01/07/2015 11:25 AM, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > > How to properly start the akonadi daemon or solve this problem in
> > > another way?
> >
> > Some kde4 packages have problems unless you set
> > services.xserver.desktopManager.kde4.enable = true;
> 
> I had this already in my config, so this doesn't seem to work.
> 
> >
> > It's possible that the problems can be also resolved by kde4.wrapper,
> > but I have no experience with that.
> >
> 
> But I was able to install the packages by putting:
> 
>     {
>         packageOverrides = pkgs: {
>             kdenliveWrapped         = pkgs.kde4.wrapped pkgs.kde4.kdenlive;
>             kdepimWrapped           = pkgs.kde4.wrapped pkgs.kde4.kdepim;
>             kdepimlibsWrapped       = pkgs.kde4.wrapped pkgs.kde4.kdepimlibs;
>             kdepimRuntimeWrapped    = pkgs.kde4.wrapped pkgs.kde4.kdepim_runtime;
>             akonadiWrapped          = pkgs.kde4.wrapped pkgs.kde4.akonadi;
>         }
>     }
> 
> in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix
> 
> I can not start the akonadi server by executing
> 
>     akonadiserver
> 
> in a terminal.
> 
> So, how to improve this now? I want a system wide install and I do not
> want to start this server by hand, how to do this?
> 
> Are there any tweaks to specify other options for akonadi? As far as I
> understand, this is a daemon server for almost everything which is
> related to Kontact, KMail and KAddressbook and the like - I need it to
> be _really_ fast, as if this stores my email, this will handle 1k
> mails per day (mailinglists). So any speed improvements would be nice!
> :-)
> 
> Anyways, thanks a lot for your help by now!
> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
> 
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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